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♪ new details emerging this morning, of the gruesome terror attack in kenya by al shabab. a victim's family receives a phone call from a gunman and hears her last words. >> to join pope francis on this easter sunday. you're looking at live pictures. we have his message to all of the world catholics in a live report. also college basketball upset. thousands celebrate in the streets of madison, wisconsin,
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as the badgers beat the kentucky wildcats. everybody's bracket is done now! it's all over after kentucky goes down. >> there you go. good morning, everyone. i'm alison kosik in for victor blackwell. >> we have to start this morning with new developments out of kenya. today begins three days of mourning for nearly 150 students, mostly students rather killed by al shabab terrorists. >> on this easter sunday, services across the country are being held in memory of the victims of thursday's massacre at garissa university college. >> some families are reuniting with loved ones who survived that deadly rampage. >> others are saying they got horrifying phone calls from their sons and daughters moments before they were gunned down. let's get more on this from cnn's sony matthew in nairobi. first, can you tell us more about these phone calls that some of these families received?
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>> reporter: gruesome stories coming out of garissa from the survivors. they are saying that a lot happened during the hostage situation and just before the police were able to take control. a lot of messages coming from their loved ones. there is a text message, a young girl writing to a boyfriend in the same school saying they reached where i am and i don't think i will survive, so good-bye. others receiving phone calls saying we are safe for now we are in a safe place and are all right but trying to correlate, the phone calls were not going through. one particular family who received such a horrific phone call. this familiar is in the kenya's valley and their brother kim talked to the sister elizabeth and the last time they spoke. just listen to this. >> translator: he cold me to call the president and told me to remove katie from somalia right now.
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i was given two minutes. he called after two minutes with the same number confirming if i called. he handed over the phone to the kid to talk. the kid prayed and they finally told me since you are not to blame and the kid is not to blame the person to blame is your president. he has refused to remove katie from somalia. just listen. i then heard the first and second and third gauntunshots. i asked if he killed the kid. he told me he was done with it. i then disconnected the phone. >> reporter: there were several families say they received similar phone calls. there are other girls who now say they were made to swim in blood by the terrorists. the terrorists were said to be laughing and taunting a the victims before shooting at them and said to be happy doing it. they spoke in arabic and english and said they were here to kill and to be killed. >> so heart breaking to hear. on the other side we are hearing
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there were reunions for some families? >> reporter: yes, indeed. around ten buses left garissa yesterday. the students were supposed to be brought here to this stadium but this changed. late afternoon, the families waiting as early as 6:00 a.m. in the morning. most of them were disappointed because other buses went to their respective homes outside of nairobi, but some of them were overjoyed and really emotional when they met with their loved ones. this victim, some were still in the clothes they had on when the attack happened. it was a very cold and wet night, but the families just were overjoyed to see their loved ones and be reunited with their loved ones. some had thb to the hospitals and mortuaries and it was a joy to witness some of them be reunited with their families. >> some nuggets of relief there.
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soni methu, thank you. james spider marks, general, i want to start with something the kenya president said about al shabab calling it an existential threat to kenya. let's listen to some of what he said. >> we tell those that believe that -- is possible in kenya. that we are one invisible sovereign and democratic state. that fact will never change. our forefathers bled and died for this nation. -- >> general, al shabab is awfully deeply enrooted and deeply embedded in kenyan communities. what can be done to root them
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ou out? >> they have a challenge in terms of what we would say is the collapse of governance through the middle east and north africa. with the advance of terrorism in all of its forms. al shabab is one of many. it's a metastasis, it's a cancer that has been able to grow. clearly it's going to take all elements of power within the kenyan government to make this right. it's more than a military solution. it's more than some form of inclusion. how do you rationalize with a form of terrorism that does what we just witnessed? it's inexplicable. you have to attack it and from all different angles and take a copartnership with your neighbors. when you look what happened. al shabab crosses the border of somalia that is completely ungoverned. it's a free fire zone. there is no controls. so we shouldn't be surprised when we see this time of
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barberism. it's hard to get your head around it. the president is absolutely correct. kenya has an amazing history, it really does. it's a democratic jewel that exists that is now under attack. it's being challenged. the people all have to come together and it takes very, very strong leadership across the board. >> all right, general, we will continue this conversation and talk about yemen and iraq throughout the morning. stay with us, if you will. general james spider marks, next hour. >> thanks. >> we will continue to have this conversation. a live look now at the celebration of easter there at vatican city. you see here pope francis, his message to rome and to the world here. >> translator: we pray for peace for all of the nations of the holy land. may the culture of encounter grow between israelis and palestinians and the peace process be resumed in order to end years of suffering and
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division. we implore peace for libya that the present absurd blood shed in all violent acts may cease and that all concerned for the future of the country may work to favor reconciliation and to build a fraternal society respectful of the dignity of the person, for yemen too, we express our hope for the growth of a common desire for peace for the good of the entire people. at the same time, in hope, we
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intrust to the merciful lord, the framework recently agreed to in los ann that it may be a definitive step for a more secure and fraternal world. westbound we ask the risen lord for the gift of peace for nigeria, south sudan and the various areas of sudan and the democratic republic of congo. may they rise up to goodwill for those who lost their lives. i think, in particular, of the young people who were killed last thursday at garissa university college in kenya. for all those who have been kidnapped and for those forced
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to abandon their homes and their dear ones. may the lord's resurrection  bring light to beloved ukraine, especially those who have endured the violence of recent months. may the country rediscover peace and hope, thanks to the commitment of all interested parties. we ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups. peace and liberty for the
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victims of drug dealers who are often allied with the powers who ought to defend peace and harmony in the human family. and we ask peace for this world, subjected to arms dealers who -- who earn a profit on the blood of men and women to the marginalized, to the imprisoned, the poor, and the migrants who are often rejected, maltreated and discarded. the sick and the suffering,
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children, especially those who are victims of violence, all who, today, are in mourning and to all men waenand women of goodwill, may they hear the consoling voice of the lord jesus. peace to you. fear not, for i am risen and i shall always be with you.
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streets. that's what police say an estimated 10,000 thrilled wisconsin badger fans after their team upset kentucky, ending the wildcats perfect season. no significant problems were reported during the festivities there. >> however, the same could not be said for fans in lexington, kentucky. police described wildcat fans as rowdy and, at times, hostile. police say small fires were set in the street and they broke up a few fights as well. there were about 31 arrests, mostly alcohol-related and disorderly contact. >> kentucky was so funny. i saw the finestest. the 40-0 record over a kentucky player, a fisherman, over a player, and said you almost had it. almost got it. now a matchup on monday's championship game. duke blue devils and wisconsin
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badgers going head-to-head for the college championship. >> let's bring in andy scholes who is live for us in indianapolis. here we go, andy. the excitement continues. >> alison and victor, the game last night between wisconsin and kentucky felt more like a championship game than a semifinal. it was just amazing all the way throughout. after the game, once wisconsin had pulled off the upset, 38 and done and 38-1 were both trending on twitter, referencing kentucky's, you know, unexpect loss on. the badgers thanks to them we won't be seeing an undefeated season in college basketball in nearly 40 years. . the game was amazing throughout and a rematch from last year's final four and saw kentucky beating the badgers. you know the badgers were looking for revenge. kaminski led wisconsin in the second half. when wisconsin needed a bucket
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most, sam dekker coming through and he had a three to put the badgers up with under 2:00 to go. wisconsin wins 71-64. kentucky future nba stars stunned their run is over. wildcat fans were just stunned as well and in disbelief and some crying in the stands. after the game, cnn's rachel nichols caught up with john calipari to talk about the first lost of the season. >> about a year since you lost the game. what were the kids like postgame in the locker room? >> they knew they let something slip away. here is the thing. up four. our team has always finished those off and we just didn't execute down the stretch. and i put that on me. >> reporter: now in the other matchup, we saw duke taking on michigan state. blue devils freshmen phenom okafor and jalil did not let the
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spartans get back in this game. not a nail-biter on like the other one and won it handily. coach k will try for fifth his fifth national title on monday. >> reporter: what does it feel like for this team to reach the ultimate game? >> it's amazing really. because we have eight kids and four of them are freshmen and they keep getting better. >> just to say you're playing in the national championship is a dream come true and we want to win one more game. >> reporter: so the stage is now set. it's going to be duke versus wisconsin playing for the national title. that is monday night. tip-off set. a late one, guys. 9:18 eastern on cbs. this is unlikely final four for a couple of reasons. one, everyone thought kentucky was going to be -- not final four but the championship game. everyone thought kentucky was going to be in it. this is only the seventh time ever that two one seeds are going to meet in the final game so that makes it unlikely. for all of the people out there that had kentucky winning in their bracket pools, they are
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now out! like everyone. and those people that bucked the trend and went with duke or wisconsin, they look like they are going to have something to root for now on monday night. >> the outcome blowing up everybody's bracket, especially yours. >> mine, included. although i was out of the running a long, long time ago. >> andy scholes, thank you. we are looking at live pictures of vatican city at the moment. pope francis speaking out against terror attacks that has gripped some christians taking on conflicts in vary and yemen and attack in kenya days ago. we will tell you more what he had to say next. crews reporting from the yemeni border following air strikes on a country descending into chaos. >> chaos claimed its first u.s. citizen. a father who wanted to bring his pregnant wife and 2-year-old daughter back to america. details after this.
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you're taking a live look at vatican city as thousands have gathered outs st. peters basilica. everyone is watching the pope as he celebrates the easter mass. looks like the rain has stopped. this is his third easter celebration. he began to deliver the blessing to rome and the world and speaking out against the persecution of christians in regions rocked by terror. ben wedeman is live in rome. the pope had a lot to say about
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world events, didn't he? >> reporter: yes, indeed, he did. now, i was here when he first celebrated two years ago. his first easter as pope, they were very different themes. you really get a feeling for how the world is changing so quickly when you listen to the list, he pray for there to be peace. iraq, holy land and libya, congo, kenya, all christians are under attack and christians have been driven from their homes. just two weeks ago, i was in a christian village in iraq where many of the people were saying with we no longer see hope or a future for us in this part of the world. and this is really what is on the mind of pope francis as he conducts this easter mass as christians in so many parts of
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the world are under attack. however, he did end his address on a lighter note. he asked the people present to pray for him and wish them a happy easter lunch. >> ben, what did you find as the reaction to his message? >> reporter: certainly people have come here despite the weather, many of them from far away to hear exactly this sort of message. this is a man, of course, who really has changed the image of the vatican of the position of the pope and just the two years that he's held that position. so people listen to him very closely and i think they share many of his concerns when he goes through this long list of countries where christians find themselves in such difficult situations. >> and hopefully, next year that list will be shorter.
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ben wedeman, thanks. you can catch "finding jesus" tonight on cnn on 9:00 p.m. eastern. the crisis in yemen claims the life of a u.s. citizen. a woman who wanted to bring his 2-year-old daughter and wife back to the states. could the state department have done anything more to save his life? plus a sea change could be ahead in ferguson, missouri. the town is electing new members to its city council for the first time since the death of michael brown and the aftermath of that death. you'll experience a transformation. take the listerine® 21 day challenge and start your transformation today. i am a lot of things. i am his guardian. i am his voice. so i asked about adding once-daily namenda xr to his current treatment
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>> kenya's interior ministry says the shooter has been identified as abraham dehali. the bodies of the gunmen were paraded through the streets this weekend. 147 people, we have said that number a few days now and it's still startling. >> really is. >> 147 people were killed when al shabab militants attacked garissa university on monday. we will have more at the top of the hour. the red cross moving on to yemen is reporting the city streets there on, quote, strewn with dead bodies. >> the humanitarian organization is calling for immediately 24-hour cease-fire saying people injured in air strikes and ground battles need treatment within hours, not days. the fighting has taken more than 500 lives the last two weeks. >> the effect of the chaos has even reached the united states with this week's death of a u.s. citizen killed in the conflict and more on that in a moment. first, nic robertson has the
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later on the air strikes battling the war-torn nation. >> reporter: we are close to the border here and hear them flying over and targeting houthi strongholds and saudi officials say they are doing. the most intense fighting is around adan. by most accounts, houthi are losing ground and saudi noncombat forces helping to bring in communications and weapons and trying to organize the sort of southern separatists there to counter the houthis efforts to gain roll of that town. this is causing a great deal of concern for the international committee for the red cross. they are calling for a humanitarian pause if only, they say, so the people of aidan who really experiencing perhaps the worst of the fight can get ouch their homes for a while and get some food and get some water. the red cross also saying they have got a plane on standby with
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48 tons of medical equipment ready to fly in. they say that could help between 2,000 to 3,000 of people with medical supplies for a number of days. they are concerned about the lack of medical supplies and equipment that are getting to the various hospitals in the country. they say civilians are suffering and so far, the u.n. says more than 500 people have been killed and more than 1700 injured so this is adding to the humanitarian concern and costs of what is happening inside yemen at the moment and, of course, on top of that, a senior al qaeda leader broken from jail appears to turn up, if you will, inside a presidential palace in the town where he was sprung from jail. batafi there. someone put in jail four or five years ago by the yemeny government because of his leadership role in al qaeda and now out on the streets. the concern al qaeda will take advantage of the deteriorating
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security situation to extend their control inside yemen, to reconstruct training camps so the government had already demolished and destroyed and taken down, so the real concern is now that in this chaos, people are suffering, humanitarian pause required, and al qaeda taking advantage as well. nic robertson, in saudi arabia. >> one of the 500 police people killed in yemen was a u.s. citizen. his cousin told kpix his brother left a month ago to see his 2-year-old daughter and wife who is pregnant. he wanted to bring them back to california. he was killed by a rebel mortar attack on tuesday after leaving a mosque. his brother was also killed in that attack. >> major general spider marks is mere here to talk more about this. we got the u.s. embassy
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evacuated and the special forces pulled out, but there are some americans who are still there. how does the u.s., if it chooses to, pull the americans out and extract them with the chaos in yemen? >> these are american citizens who can make a choice. clearly, the state department has indicated yemen has travel advisories, it's unsafe, the embassy is no longer functioning, the u.s. representation in yemen is elsewhere now, which means we still have a relationship with the country, albeit the country is now in what i would describe as a former chaos and needs to be reclaimed and reestablished. sadly, what happens is u.s. citizens that are in yemen and haven't abided by those proclamations and declarations to get out on their own are at risk. u.s. wants to protect citizens wherever they are in the world but the citizens have to stand up and take responsibility for themselves. this is a sad factor we are
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looking at right now in yemen. >> you and other military analysts we have had on the program consistently say no military solution to the problem in yemen, that there has to be a political solution. according to a diplomat this draft solution drafted yesterday by the u.n. security council according to the diplomat did not call for an end to the fighting nor did it call for political talks. how are with we now reasonably and from starting the political conversations to end this? >> probably at point zero. the fact that russia is now involved is clearly out of their scope of influence, and to be engaged in any kind of a conversation that does not have a start point that says let's stab some degree of security and a cease-fire. some semblance of a reduction in the hostility so we can have some parties come together. now the key point, at that starting position, is who are
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the key parties? clearly, those have to be identified and there are so many claimants in terms of what is taking place in yemen. saudi arabia and egypt and some of its partners in the region have stepped up and said, enough, we can't have this type of chaos. they haven't put troops across the border and they have the capability but don't know if that will take place. the saudi national guard is capable. what you have a immense collapse right there. when you look at the geography, yemen is across the straits where a whole host of the world's shipping oil lanes are right there and the united states still has a presence in the horn of africa right there. so if you have this terrorist organization that now completely creates chaos in yemen and you have the beginning of the retraining of more forms of terrorist organizations, camps that can be created in yemen, this is no longer an internal yemeni problem.
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this is not the civil war tag place the course of many decades. this is a war by proxy and where the united states and regional partners have to step up. there is no military exclusion exclusively but it starts with some form of a cease-fire and a military effort to halt what is taking place right now. >> yeah. maybe the humanitarian call for cease-fire from the red cross can begin that. we saw -- >> you know -- >> we saw that call in gaza and the crimea region. it can sometimes stop for humanitarian reasons. major general, we want take to you with you next hour what is going on in iraq so stay with us. >> thanks, victor. a road to the germanwings crash site was built last week so investigators could get into the treacherous alps but now they have packed up and left the site. what is next for the investigation? turning anger into act youion. the residents of ferguson, missouri, have a chance to
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this is a chance to turn anger and frustration and disapproval into change. for the first time since the death of michael brown galvanized the city and the country nearly eight months ago, residents of ferguson, missouri, will head to the polls to elect new members of the city council. >> one of the biggest challenges may be getting voters to cast their ballots. ka youu >> reporter: the calls to change ferguson has begun at the grassroots level to the
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department of justice and the changes have been slowly coming. this tuesday another real change in changing ferguson this time at its local government. >> my name is wesley bail. i'm run for city council. >> reporter: the first large group of americans african-americans running for city council. a council traditionally been white just like the police department, while the city is mostly black. this election three of the council six seats are vacant and, for the first time in its history, ferguson could see half its city government represented by african-americans. >> you got to fold up or show up and if you're going to be a part of the solution, you got to put your foot out there and do it. right now we are in war three in ferguson. this is the ward where the tragedy occurred. >> reporter: the tragedy less than a mile away where ferguson police officer shot michael brown. >> if you're not in office,
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you're you're limited in what you can do and i just felt helpless. >> reporter: so did adrian hawkins. >> i watched the buildings burn from my house. >> reporter: she has no political past but her resume is thick with a life lived in ferguson and a single working mother to 20-year-old twins. >> the thought of my child not returning home because he is black and walking down the street was something that i couldn't even fathom. as i listen to the sounds of war and i was, like, somebody has to do something. >> reporter: months after violent protests, the scars still litter west avenue. this simple city council election, the next step in the long road to ferguson's recovery. this time from the inside/out, candidate bob hudgins who protested on the city streets now wants to represent them. >> i'm the guy. >> reporter: part of his message, he's not what he looks like. once married to a black woman,
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father to a biracial child. so you're out here courting the black vote? >> yes, i am, as hard as i can. that's most of the voters. >> reporter: has changed arrived for the average person in ferguson? the last city election saw less than 13 percent turnout. did you vote in the last city election? >> the last city election? no, i didn't vote but this time i will. >> reporter: perhaps a sign for things to come in ferguson's future. one of the seats being vacated only as african-american candidates. >> of course, we will continue to follow that story throughout the coming week. another story we will be following closely, the investigation into the jegerma germanwings crash. about two weeks since the plane crashed in the alps but now investigators have left that crash site. what is next in the investigation? we will go live to germany next. also coming up at the top of the hour on this easter sunday, the pope sends a strong message to the world.
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the investigation into the crash of germanwings flight 9525 is now moving forward. french police say they have gathered all of the main evidence from the crash site in the alps and all of the investigators have left. now a private security firm is standing guard. initial tests on the flight data recorder revealed troubled copiloted andreas lubitz
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hurtfully sped up the plane's decent and killed all 150 people on board. will ripply is in dusseldorf. >> reporter: brand out a scathing new report from the eu commission. they warned the oversight office almost four years ago that chronic understaffing could lead to problems with getting all members of flight crews for airlines in this country, those flight crews medically checked out. now it's not clear if this is a factor in this case because as cnn reported last week, andreas lubitz did receive and pass his medical exam last summer and that medical exam included a short psychological questionnaire. nonetheless, every aspect of this investigation and what led up to it is being scrutinized right now including government oversight of pilots and checking them out and making sure they are okay to go into the cockpit.
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on tuesday, a task force will begin work here in germany and that task force's job will be to pick apart every aspect of this investigation from the crash itself to andreas lubitz and how he was chenged ocked out in the and months and weeks before this crash that allowed him to get in the pock kit and fly that plane with 149 innocent people into the french alps. >> larry schiavo works for families and victims after airplane disasters. good morning, mary. >> how unusual is it that investigators have left the scene and it's barely two weeks after the crash? >> well, it's unusual in that ordinarily, they are looking for the cause of the crash and many times in these accident investigates or in this case intentional crash investigations, you have to get so much more of the aircraft because you have to piece it together. it's pretty typically when you're looking for the cause to
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do an accident or plane crash reconstruction and for that you literally pick up every piece that you possibly can. hear since they know the cause and probably a good thing they are getting on with the investigation and issue the recommendations because it's those recommendations that the european aviation safety agency, the oversight body for europe's aviation, can make recommendations and get nations to imply. and, apparently, germany, the piece before from the reporter before showed, germany had not been in compliance for sometime. so getting those recommendations out and getting these safety loopholes closed is really important so it doesn't happen again. >> we are now learning that european union official formally told berlin to fix longstanding problems with airline oversight, including understaffing. do you think this could have helped to prevent a deliberate crash? >> easa, the european aviation
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safety agency, the oversight body, kind of like our federal aviation administration, their rules on psychiatric and psychological disorders require the airline to monitor, even if the pilot said that he was okay or she was okay, they have to monitor and continuously check if there has ever been such an episode. i think that had they followed the rules and had they enforced them and, you know, frankly there needed to be better oversight from the easa that, indeed, this very well might have been prevented. >> as this investigation continues, obviously, devastating for the families. more than 2,000 dna samples were collected from the crash site. how long does it typically take to match all of those? >> well, what they usually do is they match all of the specimens. they say they had about 2,000. they know what 150 dna pieces or profiles they are looking for.
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now they have to match up those samples. so when they return, the human remains to the families, they only have to do it once, because in previous crashes that i've worked on, in many cases, families get one, two, three, multiple times they have to receive remains of their loved ones and that is very, very devastating on the family, so it's best to finish it and identify all of the remains and then return them respectfully to the families in groups and at that crash site, of course, that will remain for the families forever, a site of remembrance. >> afs viation analyst mary sci, thank you so much. officials have i.d.'d one of the gunmen at that terror attack in kenya on thursday. we will tell you about the government connection here. families tearfully reunite with their families on this easter weekend and others mourning some of the dead. we will take you live to kenya
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